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Science Frontiers is the bimonthly newsletter providing digests of reports that describe scientific anomalies; that is, those observations and facts that challenge prevailing scientific paradigms. Over 2000 Science Frontiers digests have been published since 1976.

These 2,000+ digests represent only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The Sourcebook Project, which publishes Science Frontiers, also publishes the Catalog of Anomalies, which delves far more deeply into anomalistics and now extends to sixteen volumes, and covers dozens of disciplines.

Over 14,000 volumes of science journals, including all issues of Nature and Science have been examined for reports on anomalies. In this context, the newsletter Science Frontiers is the appetizer and the Catalog of Anomalies is the main course.


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... Science Frontiers ONLINE No. 47: Sep-Oct 1986 Issue Contents Other pages Home Page Science Frontiers Online All Issues This Issue Sourcebook Project Sourcebook Subjects Clump Of Antimatter The clumpiness of the universe described above assumed ordinary matter. Perhaps there are inhomogeneities on a different, more basic level -- matter vs. antimatter. According to one popular theory, the universe began with equal amounts of matter and antimatter. If so, where did all the antimatter go? We assume we observe a universe that is virtually 100% matter. Of course, we cannot really tell for certain because an antimatter galaxy would appear to us just like a galaxy composed of ordinary matter. The only clues revealing substantial pockets of antimatter would be the annihilation radiation produced where matter and antimatter regions rubbed against one another. The two types of matter always annihilate one another in bursts of very distinctive radiation. Well, there seems to be at least one region of antimatter near the center of our galaxy. The HEOS3 satellite and ballon-borne instruments have pinpointed a source of 511 kev gamma rays that can come only from a spot where electrons and positrons are mutually annihilating each other. (The positrons are antimat-ter analogs of electrons.) This region of mutual destruction is about 1013 kilometers across. Is it a pocket of antimatter left over after the Big Bang that a sea of surrounding matter is finally wiping out, or is it newly created antimatter in the vicinity of a black hole? No one knows. The mystery has deepened with the discovery that the intensity of the annihilation radiation varies with ...
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... Science Frontiers ONLINE No. 86: Mar-Apr 1993 Issue Contents Other pages Home Page Science Frontiers Online All Issues This Issue Sourcebook Project Sourcebook Subjects The milky sea a.k .a . "white water"June 1854. South of Java. Aboard the American clipper Shooting Star . Captain Kingman reporting: "The whole appearance of the ocean was like a plain covered with snow. There was scarce a cloud in the heavens, yet the sky...appeared as black as if a storm was raging. The scene was one of awful grandeur; the sea having turned to phosphorus, and the heavens being hung in blackness, and the stars going out, seemed to indicate that all nature was preparing for that last grand conflagration which we are taught to believe is to annihilate this material world." We selected this account of the milky sea phenomenon because of its vivid verbiage -- something absent from the modern reports: "August 13, 1986. Northwest Indian Ocean. The entire sea surface took on an intense white glow which was not unlike viewing the negative of a photograph." The milky sea is a rather common phenomenon. In fact, the British Meteorological Office has established a Bioluminescence Database, which presently contains 235 reports of milky seas seen since 1915. P.J . Herring and M. Watson have employed this Database in a review paper on these impressive displays. Geographical plotting of the reports shows a strong concentration in the northwest Indian Ocean (see figure). Seasonally, there is a strong peaking in August and a secondary blip in ...
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... Science Frontiers ONLINE No. 104: Mar-Apr 1996 Issue Contents Other pages Home Page Science Frontiers Online All Issues This Issue Sourcebook Project Sourcebook Subjects An Antarctic Bone Bed W. Zinsmeister was accustomed to scoff at the idea that the Age of Dinosaurs ended violently with the impact of a giant asteroid some 65 million years ago. He always asked: "Where's the layer of burnt and twisted dinosaur bones?" His certainty was shaken, however, when he began mapping fossil deposits on Seymour Island, Antarctica. He didn't find the dinosaur bones but rather a giant bed of fish bones at least 50 square kilometers in area. Some sort of catastrophe must have annihilated untold millions of fish. And guess what? This great bone bed was deposited directly on top of that layer of extraterrestrial iridium that marks the 65-million-year-old Cretaceous Tertiary boundary at many sites around the world. (Hecht, Jeff; "The Island Where the Fish Had Their Chips," New Scientist, p. 16, November 11, 1995) Cross reference. Bone beds of fish and other creatures are filed under ESB13X2 in Anomalies in Geology. To order this catalog, see here . From Science Frontiers #104, MAR-APR 1996 . 1996-2000 William R. Corliss ...
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... Spiral Galaxies AWO14 Origin and Persistence of Double Radio Sources AWO15 Anomalous Gravitational Distortion of Galactic Images AWZ GALACTIC MAGNETIC FIELDS AWZ1 Magnetic-Field Anomalies in Our Galaxy AX PLANET X AXO OBSERVATIONS OF PLANET X AXO1 Visual Observations of Planet X AXO2 Infrared Observations of Planet X AXO3 Radio Observations of Planet X AY METEORS AND METEORITES AYB METEOR AND METEORITE FLUX ANOMALIES AYB1 Stationary Meteor Radiants AYB2 Meteor Rates Correlated with Solar Activity AYB3 Meteor Rates Correlated with Lunar Phase AYB4 Meteorites: Geographical Anomalies AYB5 Meteor and Meteorite Temporal Anomalies AYB6 The Unexpected Abundance of Very Large Meteors AYB7 Clouds and Swarms of Meteors AYB8 Micrometeoroid Loss-Gain Imbalance AYE ANOMALIES IN METEORITE COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE AYE1 Isotopic and Inorganic Chemical Anomalies AYE2 Organic Compounds in Meteorites AYE3 Unusual Meteorite-Exposure Ages AYE4 Anomalous Formation Ages of Meteorites AYE5 "Sedimentary" Meteorites AYE6 Annihilation-Radiation Events Ascribed to Antimatter Meteorites AYE7 Meteorite Magnetic Anomalies AYE8 The Unexplained Origin(s ) of Chondrules AYE9 The Brownlee Particles AYE10 Lack of Correspondence between Meteorite and Asteroid Compositions AYO METEORS IN FLIGHT AYO1 The Peculiar Green Meteors and Fireballs AYO2 Erratic Meteors AYO3 Atmospheric Debris Resembling Meteors in Flight AYO4 Large Meteorites with Negligible Craters AYO5 Meteor Collisions AYO6 Meteors of Very Long Duration AYO7 Fireball Processions AYO8 Nebulous Meteors AYO9 Rebrightening of Meteor Trails AYO10 Dark Meteor-Like Streaks AYO11 Long, Hollow Cylinders of Meteoric Dust AZ THE ZODIACAL LIGHT AZO IDIOSYNCRACIES OF THE ZODIACAL LIGHT AZO1 Varying Visibility of the Zodiacal Light with Geographic Location AZO2 Zodiacal Light Observed on Northern Horizons in Northern Hemisphere AZO3 Irregularities in the Shape of the Zodiacal Light AZO4 Irregular and Sporadic Changes in Brightness AZO5 Zodiacal-Light Color Changes AZO6 Correlations of ...
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